The Brutalist Report

Hacker News

• Samon: Designing a Zen Garden Raking Puzzle [18d] [hn]
• Ask HN: Are there AI models for generating sounds based on a text and reference? [18d] [hn]
• Ephemeral Testing [18d] [hn]
• Worth Building [18d] [hn]
• Example.com Just Launched the Biggest Redesign in Decades [18d] [hn]
• Food Atlas: Connections behind the dishes we love [18d] [hn]
• ChatGPT is adding real cartoonists' signatures to fake New Yorker cartoons [18d] [hn]
• Global Solar Atlas: summary of solar power potential globally [18d] [hn]
• Learning Jazz Pianist Style with Cross-Attention Conditioning [18d] [hn]
• Friendship ended with Deno, now Node is my best friend [18d] [hn]
• Better Space-Time Trade-Offs for LSM-Tree Based Key-Value Stores [pdf] [18d] [hn]
• Texas city demands $2M for public records on Flock usage [18d] [hn]
• Graphical UI [18d] [hn]
• Find the flattest route between any two points in SF [18d] [hn]
• Dust: Pretraining Transformers Without Backpropagation [18d] [hn]
• Living off-grid: Hundred Rabbits [18d] [hn]
• Opus 5.5 agents discover 2 room-temperature magnetic semiconductor candidates [18d] [hn]
• WSL containers is now generally available – Windows Developer Blog [18d] [hn]
• 3D-printing platform rapidly produces complex electric machines [18d] [hn]
• The Third Way of Using Linux [18d] [hn]
• GitHub Actions Has Problems [18d] [hn]
• The mental health of young men is declining. Experts warn it could get worse [18d] [hn]
• First Steps into Memory Management in Python [18d] [hn]
• After bankruptcy, he was banned from sports betting sites. Then he found Kalshi [18d] [hn]
• AI Companies Are Parasites [18d] [hn]
• The Future of Mathematics [18d] [hn]
• Beam: Reflection's 501B open-weight model [18d] [hn]
• How did Rosalind Franklin miss the helix in her iconic DNA image? She didn't [18d] [hn]
• One person is now a quorum at the SEC [18d] [hn]
• Questions for Believers in AI Consciousness [18d] [hn]
• Why Plain Text Is Still One of the Best Technologies We Have [18d] [hn]
• Greenvolt begins building 600 MW/2.4 GWh BESS in Poland [18d] [hn]
• Norway Eyes Partial Ban of Smart Glasses [18d] [hn]
• FBI Tracked Susie Wiles Phone, Emails with Journalists & Lawyers, New Docs Show [18d] [hn]
• OpenAI "rogue" agent activities found on Wikimedia projects [18d] [hn]
• US closely monitoring case of lab worker who possibly died of plague in Siberia [18d] [hn]
• Benchmark in Milliseconds [18d] [hn]
• Analog Computer Simulator in the Browser [18d] [hn]
• Our approach to EU text provenance rules [18d] [hn]
• The future of independence is interdependence [18d] [hn]
• My Homelab Two Years Later, Every Upgrade and What It Cost [18d] [hn]
• Florida woman arrested for allegedly making threats in an AI chat [18d] [hn]
• Borland Turbo Basic [18d] [hn]
• People are asking ChatGPT to help them decide how to vote in the midterms [18d] [hn]
• Altman: The world should accept some bad things happening for the benefits of AI [18d] [hn]
• "I'm Embarrassed on Behalf of the Tech Industry" [18d] [hn]
• Making a GTK application in Haskell, part 1 [18d] [hn]
• The designer lamps in my house [18d] [hn]
• Float and integer arithmetic follow two different paradigms [18d] [hn]
• Picard 3.0 Released [18d] [hn]
• Jonathan Haidt: AI Is the 'Neutron Bomb for Education' [video] [18d] [hn]
• Spending on AI Is Becoming Almost Impossible for Businesses to Budget [18d] [hn]
• Pixel 11 doesn't yet meet the GrapheneOS security standards and may be skipped [18d] [hn]
• Gitframes [18d] [hn]
• Accept 'bad things' in return for benefits of AI, says Sam Altman [18d] [hn]
• Tell HN: Uceprotect is extorting website owners [18d] [hn]
• The Era of Software Quality, or the Era of Ostriches? [18d] [hn]
• Anthropic wants your thoughts on AI [18d] [hn]
• Fitts's law: why the menu bar is at the top [18d] [hn]